Even if you never succumbed to low-carb dieting, you might have still shunned pasta in your quest to fit into your skinny jeans once again. Pasta often gets a bad rap in the weight-loss world, but the truth is that it can be very diet-friendly... when eaten in moderation. Unfortunately, nobody wants to stop eating at the recommended serving size: a half-cup of pasta.

So if you’re looking for a diet-friendly pasta solution that you can fill up on, Tofu Shirataki noodles might just be your godsend. At just 20 calories per 4-oz. serving, these noodles are incredibly diet-friendly. Compare them to a 2-oz. serving of regular pasta, which has more than 200 calories.

You might think that Tofu Shirataki noodles must look and taste like cardboard, but lucky for you, the only thing these noodles have in common with cardboard is their fiber content. Taste tests from around the globe proclaim that Tofu Shirataki noodles, made from a mix of yam flour and tofu, are quite possibly even better than regular pasta – a claim you can only dispute if you do your own taste test.

In fact, the only downside to these low-calorie noodles is that they're a little more difficult to find in regular grocery stores and are quickly disappearing in higher-end grocery chains and health food stores. If they’re leaving the shelves that fast, the masses must be right about how good these noodles really are.